New York Times

Two House committees voted to approve a contempt of Congress citation for President Biden’s son after he made a surprise appearance on Capitol Hill, prompting bitter partisan fighting.

In Iowa, Democrats politely accepted President Biden’s decision to push them back on the presidential nominating calendar. In New Hampshire, they’re fighting it with live-free-or-die stubbornness.

As Republicans met to approve a contempt citation of President Biden’s son for failing to sit for a private deposition, he made a surprise appearance, prompting chaos in the proceedings.

The Office of the National Taxpayer Advocate lamented that the tax collection agency, which now faces budget cuts in Congress, is still struggling to answer the telephones.

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis will debate on CNN on Wednesday night, at the same time that Donald Trump is holding a Fox News town hall.

Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty.

The president learned only Tuesday that his defense secretary had been diagnosed with prostate cancer a month ago and had surgery under general anesthesia in December, aides said.

A spokesman said the White House, which had been kept in the dark for three days about the defense secretary’s hospitalization, only learned of the diagnosis on Tuesday.

A win isn’t always win in the Iowa caucuses. In the final days, the candidates are scrambling to beat each other — and expectations.

The onetime Trump supporter was driven into hiding after Fox News and prominent Republicans spread a false narrative that he was a government agent who helped instigate the attack on the Capitol.